Bonded (slave) Child Laborer Carries Clay To Be Made Into Bricks
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Romano, U. Roberto
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still image
photographs
2000
black and white
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born digital
Source extent: 46.0 Linear ft.
Thousands of brick kilns line the riverbanks in Bengal and the surrounding states of India. Most of the workers here are bonded (slave) laborers, and do not attend school. The families that work here are exploited 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week. At night they sleep in the open or in makeshift shanties where sanitary conditions are non-existent. Over one quarter of the children working here have been trafficked from other areas where their parents have been forced to either sell them into debt bondage (slavery) or are dependent on the meager wages that these children can provide. Working all day in the hot sun where temperatures regularly climb above 100F (37C), child workers carry well over a ton of clay a day and crouch for hours as they fabricate thousands of bricks in old fashioned molds. Child workers tend to be chronically tired from the long hours and irregular rest, increasing the probability of accidents, injuries and deformity. Disease, malnutrition and permanent skeletal injury are common.
U. Roberto (Robin) Romano Papers, 1971-2011
Research files and photography by noted photographer and documentary filmmaker U. Roberto (Robin) Romano, who has documented child labor in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, and Pakistan, migrant farm labor in the United States and Mexico, and the cocoa industry in the Ivory Coast.
Over two hundred digital images and thirty-four framed photographic prints were donated by Mr. Romano in 2008/2009. Additional materials were transferred in 2011-2012 and are on deposit.
[Item description, #:#], Robin Romano Papers. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.
2008.0006
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library
Children's rights
Child labor
Brick trade
West Bengal
India
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West Bengal (state)
India
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